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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: handle pci_enable_device() failure upon resume
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061013075953.GC28654@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061012014720.GA12935@havoc.gtf.org>

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:47:20PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

NAK.  What happens to the ports if pci_enable_device() fails and someone
has them open?

It's far better to leave the must_check warning behind until it can be
_correctly_ solved, rather than papering over the problem with bogus
patches to return errors without taking an appropriate additional action.

IOW, the warnings serve as a reminder that *proper* error handling needs
to be implemented.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-13  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-12  1:47 [PATCH] serial: handle pci_enable_device() failure upon resume Jeff Garzik
2006-10-13  7:59 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-10-13 20:15   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-13 23:15     ` Alan Cox
2006-10-14  8:38     ` Russell King

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